Typical Quaker Meeting (1800s)

An artist’s rendering of a typical Quaker meeting such as one the Waters men might have attended, illustrating the meeting hall and attire of men and women. John Waters became a Quaker in 1841. The drawing also shows the women and men segregated. Thomas Rowlandson. Yale Center for British Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. See also P. 153 of the By Sea, By Land book.

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